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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Storytelling
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:32:24 +0100
Caric said on 7:18/12 Jul 97...

> | I even did this for a fight between a PC and a mantis spirit. We'd
> | stopped the last session just before the fight, and went on there. In the
> | meantime I'd decided the PC would get killed if we handled this as a
> | straight BTB fight, so we turned to a more cinematic style; no initiative
> | rolls, mostly descriptions of actions and what was going on, plus the
> | occasional attack test for either side. Hey, I wanted the PC to survive
> | (guess that doesn't make me much of an evil GM, does it? :)
>
> I guess that depends on if you left him alive so that you could rip his arm
> of with an elevator later or not.

I wanted him alive else there'd be nobody to take Anne Penchyk out of the
CZ (and don't go into more detail about this without spoiler spaces,
okay?).

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